Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dressing \Dress"ing\, n.
   1. Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or
      attire. --B. Jonson.

   2. (Surg.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore
      or wound. --Wiseman.

   3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the
      surface, it is called a top-dressing.

   4. (Cookery)
      (a) A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a
          dressing for salad.
      (b) The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.

   5. Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing
      silk, linen, and other fabrics.

   6. An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows,
      or on a ceiling, etc.

   7. Castigation; scolding; -- often with down. [Colloq.]

   {Dressing case}, a case of toilet utensils.

   {Dressing forceps}, a variety of forceps, shaped like a pair
      of scissors, used in dressing wounds.

   {Dressing gown}, a light gown, such as is used by a person
      while dressing; a study gown.

   {Dressing room}, an apartment appropriated for making one's
      toilet.

   {Dressing table}, a table at which a person may dress, and on
      which articles for the toilet stand.

   {Top-dressing}, manure or compost spread over land and not
      worked into the soil.

Forceps \For"ceps\, n. [L. forceps, -cipis, from the root of
   formus Hot + capere to take; akin to E. heave. Cf.
   {Furnace}.]
   1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping,
      holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it
      would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the
      fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those
      of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc.

   2. (Zo["o]l.) The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs
      and some other insects. See {Earwig}.

   {Dressing forceps}. See under {Dressing}.